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"To accomplish all this, the terms of the Memorandum of financial support should be renegotiated so that we could be more flexible," Samaras was explicit. He accused the government that it has agreed on everything the Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund proposed without negotiating. The leader of New Democracy gave Ireland as an example, the right-wing government of which kept the flat tax of 12.5% despite the insistence of the Troika to increase it. And Portugal did not cut the 13^th and 14^th salaries and froze the pensions excluding the lowest ones which it may even increase. Antonis Samaras referred to economic experts, according to which the European Financial Stability Fund established by the European Union would make it easier for speculators to put countries like Greece on their knees. Alternatively, Samaras supported the issuance of European securities and the option the countries to be allowed to buy back their debts. The opposition leader openly criticised the other eurozone countries for not giving money to Greece to save it from the difficult situation but rather to benefit from it. "This is not solidarity and empathy with our difficulties," he said.

"We need to bury the ghosts of populism, fatalism and hatred of the other. The people want a contract for dignity and self-confidence from us. We are able to do better and we deserve better. We can and we will succeed," concluded Antonis Samaras.